Report: US Galaxy Note 7s will finally be disabled via OTA update [Update]

Enlarge / One of the extra-crispy Galaxy Note 7s after a charging accident. (credit: BusinessKorea )

It’s hard to imagine anyone still carrying around a potentially explosive Samsung Galaxy Note 7 after the smartphone was recalled (twice), cancelled, and limited to 60 percent battery capacity. If someone in the US is still holding out against the carriers, Samsung, and common sense after all that, an OTA update will put any active Galaxy Note 7 devices to the sword.

That’s according to The Verge, at least, which says it received an image of a US Cellular alert sent out to users. “As of December 15th,” the message reads, “Samsung will modify the software to prevent the Galaxy Note 7 from charging. The phone will no longer work.” As with other Galaxy Note 7 restrictions, the other US carriers will probably follow suit soon, too.

In early November—a month after the second recall started—Samsung said around 85 percent of Galaxy Note 7s had been returned. There are apparently still some diehards out there who just don’t want to give up their devices—check out the Galaxy Note 7 subreddit—and unless users go to the extreme task of disabling their OTA updates, this should get the last of them.

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Source: Ars Technica – Report: US Galaxy Note 7s will finally be disabled via OTA update [Update]